All Star Section Eight #5

Yay! Zombie Section Eight is going to rejoin Section Eight!

So far, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, and Batman have all declined to join Section Eight. The cover has not helped me actually figure out who gets to be the all star this issue. Since it has a hell theme, I hope it's Etrigan!

Good enough.

The Phantom Stranger is into rap in Sixpack's probably near death hallucination. I guess it's because he wears a gold chain? Except it's really silver?

Sixpack isn't dead because he's really Sidney and he's in a fugue state. So instead he's just thinking he's visiting the afterlife with Hip Hop Phantom Stranger who takes a jab at Neil Gaiman and everybody else that worked on Vertigo titles, really. A friendly jab, I'm sure! And then The Phantom Stranger calls on some guests to help with the afterlife festival.

Yay again! Etrigan!

The Demon appears to tell readers to ask to get Ennis and Mcrea's Demon run printed up in a trade paperback. That's cool and all but I'd like to point out that Grant and Semeiks' run on The Demon was better! Just reprint the entire run for all the poor losers who don't own the issues.

The Phantom Stranger takes Sixpack to Limbo so he can visit his old teammates. He explains how Limbo is the place where DC Comics puts the characters that they're embarrassed by. If the same rule applies for the real afterlife, I can't wait to wind up there!

His old teammates send Sixpack back to New York where Sidney is lying naked in an alley freezing in the snow. Sixpack covers him up with his cape and then lies down beside him to keep him warm. And then he wakes up screaming back in Noonan's! Which life is real?! Are they both real?! Does it matter?! I think if I were living Sixpack's life in Noonan's with all the shit and vomit and human filth, I'd rather die in the snow in an alley outside of a pretentious art gallery.

Sixpack really begins to freak out when Superman comes walking in the door to take Sixpack home.

All Star Section Eight #5 Rating: No change. This issue wasn't as gross as the others although it had lots and lots of swearing! That's probably cool! Although the coolest part was that Superman showed up at the end to actually help Sixpack. Garth Ennis understands Superman so the next issue might wind up being one of the best portrayals of Superman since The New 52 began, and in an issue of the grossest and silliest comic book DC has put out since then. I really hope so because I'd love to see Superman actually being heroic even if it is in the hallucination of a dying drunk in an alley.